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In some cases, writing is a pretty impersonal force: if I want to answer some specific question about my taxes, I'm not using this as a pretext to develop some sort of personal connection with whoever is going to explain the nuances of the wash-sale rule or whatever. But in other categories—ones with a substantial overlap with what we think of as
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Preference for small, comprehensible businesses; valuing craftsmanship, limits, anti-optimization, and the philosophy of “enough.”
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I feel like they're more real. I like real things, for whatever that means. Define it however you'd like. But a billion-dollar business or a ten-billion-dollar business, just it doesn't feel like a real thing to me. It feels like a concept.
Meanwhile, the dry cleaner down the street, I can drop off my shirt. I get it cleaned. I bring it up. I pick
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Time and again in creative work, and in life in general, I find that what gets me unstuck is a psychological ‘move’, a shift of orientation, that I’ve only ever been able to describe using the word unclenching. Which is arguably unfortunate, but anyway: it seems to be my default response to uncertainty or overwhelm or other difficulties to tighten... See more